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MY LIFE IN A CAPSULE

By Dan Donlan, www.PoetryPoem.com/dandy1    Unlock all Features - Upgrade to Poetry Prime

It seems only yesterday
I was a babe in a crib
A hot summer day
Japanese submarines
They were in the Puget Sound
It was a blackout world
Lights out my tiny world in candles
A rat crawled in my crib
I was teasing it with a black widow spider
I caught a garden snake
Gave it to the girl next door
this was the world I did explore
Dad was slapping Mom
What a coward could slap women!
She left the window open for air
Japaneze were going to get the coward!
But then life does move on
I didn't slap woman but fistfaught boys
I had no life few toys
In the first grade, teacher
Put me in the bad boy closet!
I wrote my first children's story
And my first poem, "Roses is read
I wish the giant coward was dead!"
I met my best friend Jim
Sixty eight years I have known him
Fourteen I climbed the water tower
It was on a dare
Only it poured down rain
I was in bad boy trouble again
Saved again by my friend Jim
The local fireman brought me down
I was in trouble--they gave me a ice cream cone!
Seventeen, no one would believe I would graduate,
I joined the National guard
I was no coward like my dad
Not from high school--but I did!
Found me a job building Airplanes
But I wanted to be a Marine--flunked the physical
An Airman instead--hate the sight of blood!
From the first time dad hit mom
I wanted to make him pay but he ran away
So they made me become a medic,
Put me in emergency room alone!
Seems I was always doing things I shouldn't do
I actually finished first in my class
Not bad for a boy who nearly flunked high school
Going to College was a surprise too!
I could play basketball, but my grades were bad.
Scored twenty points a game but injuries I had!
I boxed men in the ring not a coward like dad
The important thing about going to college,
It was there I met the love of my life.
That beautiful black haired beauty I called my wife.
Kids, Grandkids the time is passing fast.
It seems only yesterday I was a baby in a crib,
Yesterday, tomorrow, what well the next day bring?
Someone slow this down put the cap back on this capsule
For it is the end of another day







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